Logline

Two childhood friends reconnect during the Harlem Renaissance with new adult identities and play a deadly game of passing for white women in high society New York.
 

Synopsis

Inspired by the novel by Nella Larsen.
Passing is a historical fiction-suspense thriller about Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield, two African-American childhood friends who reunite as adults during the Harlem Renaissance. Clare has married and mothered a child with John Bellew, a white, wealthy, and virulent racist, who has no idea that Clare is black. Irene, on the other hand, has married a prominent African-American physician, Brian Redfield, has two boys, and lives at the center of black high society. With childhood nostalgia getting the better of them, the act of passing in 1920s New York becomes a deadly game.
 

GENRES

Historical drama, thriller
 

THEMES

Identity politics, racism, displacement, gender equity